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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – </span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Auditions for The Studio Series’ Production of “Songs for a New World”</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>As part of the 2016 - 2017 collaborative theater season, The Studio Series, Lake Erie College Department of Theatre and Rabbit Run Community Arts Association (RRCAA) announce auditions for the upcoming production of “Songs for a New World” by Jason Robert Brown.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>There will be open auditions Nov. 29 and 30 at 7:00 pm at the C. K. Rickel Theatre in the Royce Hall for Fine and Performing Arts at Lake Erie College. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#6C6C6C;letter-spacing:.1pt;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;background:white'>“Songs for a New World” is about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or taking a stand, or turning around to go back. The first musical from Tony Award winner, Jason Robert Brown (“</span><em><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";letter-spacing:.1pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>Parade”, “Bridges of Madison County”</span></em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;background:white'>), this show is a collection of songs examining life, love and the choices we make.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;background:white'>Brown transports the audience from the deck of a 1492 Spanish sailing ship to a ledge, 57 stories above Fifth Avenue, to meet an array of characters that range from a young man who sees basketball as his ticket out of the ghetto to a woman who nabs the rich man of her dreams and a soulless marriage.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=MsoHyperlink><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;text-decoration:none'>Actors auditioning should be prepared to sing 16 measures of a Broadway-style song. Please bring sheet music for accompaniment; no pre-recorded accompaniment. </span></span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span lang=EN style='color:black;text-decoration:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=MsoHyperlink><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;text-decoration:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=MsoHyperlink><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;text-decoration:none'>“Songs for a New World”<i> </i>is directed by Brint Learned, with musical direction by Alex Ulle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><o:p> </o:p></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Production dates are Feb. 10 through Feb. 25. at the C. K. Rickel Theatre on the campus of Lake Erie College, 391 W. Washington St., Painesville, OH. The theater is located on Gillett St. For more information visit </span><a href="http://www.rabbitrunonline.org"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.rabbitrunonline.org</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>. or call RRCAA at 440-428-5913.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“Songs for a New World” is made possible in part by funding through the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lake County Visitors Bureau Arts and Culture Fund, the Ohio Arts Council and ideastream. </span><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'># # #<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 6.75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none;border:none;padding:0in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>RRCAA is a comprehensive fine arts association offering year-round instruction in all the major disciplines of the fine and performing arts as well as operating Rabbit Run Theater, one of the few barn theaters still in operation. For more information, call RRCAA at 440-428-5913 or visit rabbitrunonline.org. </span><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Lake Erie College, founded in 1856, provides distinctive undergraduate and graduate programs grounded in the liberal arts. We empower students to deal with the diversity, complexity and change necessary to excel in the 21<sup>st</sup> century. We offer 35 undergraduate majors and master’s programs in business administration, education and physician assistant studies. Our students compete in 17 NCAA Division II varsity sports.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Karen Ziegler<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Director of Marketing/Group Sales<br>Rabbit Run Theater<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>P. O. Box 235, 49 Park St.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Madison, OH 44057<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>440-428-5913<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><a href="http://www.rabbitrunonline.org">www.rabbitrunonline.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>